ALBANY - Another 100 members of the New York National Guard were deployed to Dutchess, Putnam, Sullivan and Westchester counties on Sunday to help in recovery efforts after Friday's winter storm left 360,000 New Yorkers without power.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo also declared a state of emergency in the four counties. This follows Saturday's initial deployment of 100 National Guard members to assist state, county and local officials with clearance of debris from roads.

"This is an all-hands-on-deck situation and the people of the Hudson Valley should know that New York State is doing everything we can to restore power and help them recover as quickly as possible," Gov. Cuomo said.

Strong winds, with gust of 50 to 60 mph, along with heavy rain and snow took down trees, branches and power lines causing the outages.

Numerous power outages were reported in Greene and Columbia counties on Friday. On Sunday night, 1,523 customers were still without power in Columbia county. Outages in Greene County on Sunday night affected 114 customers. Statewide, 182,000 customers were still without power on Sunday.

The New York State Emergency Operations Center also remains open to further support local and state partners during recovery operations. Crews from the state Department of Transportation have also been dispatched to assist localities with storm cleanup and debris removal as well as to support for utility restoration operations. In the Southern Tier and Hudson Valley regions, the Department has deployed more than 1,000 operators and supervisors, 388 large dump trucks, 23 chippers, three tree crew bucket trucks, 12 signal trucks, and 91 loaders.